Dear Friends and Colleagues:

We are happy to confirm the following five additional speakers for our 12th Annual Conference tomorrow:

Dennis Ross

Special Assistant to the President, and senior director of the Central Region at the National Security Council

Congressman Keith Ellison

5th District of Minnesota

Jaloul Ayed

Tunisian Minister of Finance

Zalmay Khalilzad

Former Representative of the United States to the United Nations

Saad Eddine Ibrahim

Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies  

If you have not already registered for the Conference,you can still do so before 3:00 PM EST TODAY  online by clicking here, or you can register onsite tomorrow.  Media is welcome to cover the event, and free media passes will be available tomorrow at the registration desk.

Click here to Register for the Conference before 3 PM EST

If you are unable to join us, you can watch all of the conference panels LIVE and FREE, by clicking here 

Click here to Watch Live on Friday, April 15th.

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

The Conference Program and Organizing Committee 

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY

12th Annual Conference

Tunisia's and Egypt's Revolution and Transitions to Democracy

What is the impact on the Arab World?

What Lessons can we learn?

Friday, April 15, 2011

The Jack Morton Auditorium

805 21st Street, NW

George Washington University

Washington, DC 20052

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TENTATIVE PROGRAM

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.                           Registration                    

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.                            Welcoming Remarks        

·      Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, Chair, Program Committee

·      Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, CSID President

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.                  Panel 1

·      His Excellency Mohamed Salah Tekaya - Ambassador of Tunisia

·      Jaloul Ayed - Tunisian Minister of Finance

·      Samir Dilou - Tunisian Lawyer and member of al-Nahda Party

        and member of the High Council for the Protection of the  

        Revolution 

·      Mondher Ben Ayed - Tunisian Businessman

·      Radwan Masmoudi - President, Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.                   Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.                           Panel 2        

·      Emad El-Din Shahin - University of Notre Dame

·      Saad Eddine Ibrahim - Ibn Khaldun Center for Development

             Studies  

·      Mona Makram-Ebeid - Council of Trutees of the Revolution -   

             Maglis Omnaa Al-thowwar  

·      Larry Diamond  -  Stanford University

·      Nathan J. Brown - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·      Stephen Zunes - University of San Francisco

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.         Break for Lunch & Friday Prayers                 

2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.                  Panel 3        

·      Abdallah Schleifer - The American University in Cairo

·      Radwan Ziadeh - Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies

·      Amina Rasul-Bernardo - Lead Convenor, Philippine Council  

              for Islam and Democracy

·      Mona Yacoubian - United States Institute of Peace

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.                  Coffee Break

4:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.                  Panel 4        

·      Tamara Cofman Wittes - Deputy Assistant Secretary of State  

                 for Near Eastern affairs

·      Roland Rich - Executive Head, United Nations Democracy Fund

·      Carl Gershman - President, National Endowment for Democracy

·      Marc Lynch - George Washington University

·      Shadi Hamid - Research Director, Brookings Doha Center

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.        

Concluding Remarks

Building Real and Genuine Democracies in the Middle East & North Africa

 Dennis Ross 

Special Assistant to the President, and senior director of the Central Region at the National Security Council

Congressman Keith Ellison
5th District of Minnesota  

Zalmay Khalilzad

Former Representative of the United States to the United Nations

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